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During the campaign, Trump droogs coined the detestable phrase "build the wall, deport them all."
Well, the wall never got built, and never will be. And I'm guessing that the second part will be just as much of a self-defeating trainwreck as the first.
Well, the wall never got built, and never will be. And I'm guessing that the second part will be just as much of a self-defeating trainwreck as the first.
Trump's "deportation force" fantasy was always ludicrous, requiring millions of new hires and a massive new transportation and jailing infrastructure. If Trump's new proposal isn't just a leaked trial balloon, it will fail enormously, and be a huge embarrassment.
In early 2017, Trump was yammering about deporting "2-3 million" people. The costs and manpower would have been titanic. According to ICE, it takes 6-12 officers and tens of thousands of dollars just to arrest and deport one person. Not to mention housing and transportation. 
A sudden mass deportation of a million people? You'd need ten million new ICE hires, thousands of new prisons, hundreds of aircraft, and it'll cost billions that haven't been appropriated. It's not going to happen.
